A week ago (Saturday 13th November), the Netherlands again announced more restrictive Corona measures, which means I’ve gone from most work days biking over to the office, to most work days staying home. Between that and so many gray, moist days and long, dark nights, I’ve chosen to push myself out the door any time I have a half-hour break from onscreen meetings, in search of what color and contrast I can find in my visual surroundings. Each time I’m inclined to become depressed about the leaves abandoning their trees and the absence of those glorious long summer days I enjoyed when I first arrived — I remind myself to enjoy the color of the leaves while it’s still there to be enjoyed. Hope you do as well 🙂
So while I’ve been sorting and posting photos from the cool things I saw while in Jordan … two months ago … life here in Amsterdam has rolled along, with longer nights and shorter days. It’s the first time I’ve lived this far north since many decades ago, so even though the early dark, along with the frequent gray skies and rain tend to depress me a wee bit and drive me to sit indoors watching television and eating junk food…still I do manage to force myself outdoors frequently enough to get lots of photos of sunsets on the canals. Or at least I did when the work day ended before the daylight did. Now that work days end after the daylight does, I haven’t quite figured out how I’ll stave off the inevitable growth of my waistline over the course of a winter that will be dominated no doubt by rain, cold, and covid restrictions on the public commons. Ugh. Still, I’ll be doing my best to bring you beauty where I find it. 🙂
Turns out this Artzuid thing was already happening when I landed, and the day I finally noticed it was the second to last day! It’s Amsterdam’s (the Netherlands’s_ biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition, in parks belts along some lovely lanes not far from my place. Wish I’d found time to tune in before…guess I’ll try again in 2023 :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 